“Many of the enshrinees there this Sunday have been there previously when Neil has joined them,” Ron Kaplan, enshrinement director of the National Aviation Hall of Fame, told the Dayton Daily News. “It’s a gathering of peers and friends appropriately to help rename this trophy in his honor.”
The award will be known as the Neil A. Armstrong Aviation Heritage Trophy, given to the best vintage aircraft restored to airworthy condition. The trophy has been called the Rolls-Royce Aviation Heritage Trophy until this year.
Armstrong, a Wapakoneta native, died Aug. 25 after complications from heart surgery, according to his family.
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